Is “push” technology on mobile phones so helpful for your job?

Some thinking on the never ending discussion on “push” and “pull” technology, with particular implication for mobile phones.

I keep on reading commercials and articles about the importance, for professionals, of push access to email.  I’ve always thought that time and concentration are key while working. Usually we don’t have time to do things [...]

Oriente.com

Very interesting meeting yesterday in Rome organized by @donatelladr with the stars of the web2.0 scenario in the Middle East:
- Laith M. Zraikat co-founder and chief product officer of Jeeran.com, the largest Arab online community with 1,5 millions registered users and more than 7 millions of unique visitors per month.

- Nadine Toukan co-founder [...]

Tomorrow: Blog Action Day ‘09 on Climate Change

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Communties of Practice

Some notes taken during the meeting with @Nancy to talk about Communities of Practice last week at IFAD with @Gauri, @Roxy and @Michael.

What is a “browser”

I think we should spend much more time on communication…
P.S.: thanks @gaurisalokhe

Km4Dev has a new house on the Web!

I’m very happy to announce that the KM4Dev list has a pretty new house on the Web:

Thanks Lucie and Michael for setting it up!

Indian election are going on under constant monitoring

As previously reported the Ushahidi engine is being used to monitor the Indian elections. Here is the situation as of today.

I find very interesting having such a mix of content available on the site!

2009 AMARC Pan African Conference: the results

The results of the election of 4th AMARC Pan African Conference held in Abidjan the 27-30th April 2009.

The new Board of Directors is composed by (from left to the right):

Benilde Nhalevilo: Women Representative from Eastern and Southern Africa (FORCOM) Mozambique
Kofy Larweh: Training officer, (GCRN) Ghana
Zara Yacoub: Institutional development, (DJA FM) Tchad
Franklin Huizies: Vice-president from Eastern [...]

4th AMARC Pan African Conference Starts

The 4th AMARC Pan African Conference is just started and immediately appeared to be a very useful occasion to get in touch with Radio broadcasters here in Abidjan. What’s better to spend time around a table talking, and most of all, listening to people involved everyday in radio broadcasting?

Thanks to a very good wifi access, [...]

Ushahidi in India

A new application of Ushahidi to report about the Indian vote:

4th AMARC Pan African Conference

I’m very happy to participate to the AMARC Africa’s 4th Pan African Conference!
At the Conference, AMARC will gather its members, community radio stakeholders and relevant partner organizations to discuss the challenges of community radio in Africa. In his invitation, Marcelo Solervicens, Secretary General of AMARC, is eager to stimulate further collaboration between the major partners.
In [...]

The ability of creating linkages through the Internet

I recently found this article and I think it’s worth reading it. Written by Seth Godin, it’s called “How to make money using the Internet“. As you can understand from the title, the article is meant for a business audience and not directly for people involved in development projects.
Nonetheless, I see interesting prods about how [...]

Participatory photography?

In Darlene E. Clover’s description participatory photography:
“places the medium of the camera into the hands of learners to democratize the image-making dynamic and give them the power to show and speak their own realities.”
Learn more on participatory photography with the PhotoVoice Manual.
p.s.: I was able to know participatory photography and learn about it thanks [...]

Why local content creation is so important for farmers

Interview during the MobileActive 2008 World Summit (Johannesburg, South Africa) with Mary NAKIRYA, Program coordinator at BROSDI, Busoga Open Source & Development Initiative, in Uganda.
Mary explains how the CELAC (Collecting & Exchange of Local Agricultural Content) project enables farmers to voice record their own innovative techniques and how they disseminate their experiences with radio/CD players [...]

Gfail!

This morning I had the chance to observe something incredible: thousands and thousands of messages on twitter about the Gfail that’s to say the fail of Gmail’s servers.

It was incredible to see, using twitterfall, the ways people reacted to this event. When I came back after lunch, there were over 8.000 messages in line about [...]